Thank you for your question.
One of the issues that I think illustrated this was the debate over Bill C-51. A lot in Bill C-51 could perhaps have been criticized, but debate over it often came between individuals who were accusing those who did not want to support the bill as being in favour of child molesters, and, on the other hand, individuals who were accusing those who did support the bill of trying to create a 1984 surveillance state.
My concern is that the security environment in Canada has evolved considerably since the Cold War and I'm not convinced Canadians' understanding of that issue has. That's not to discredit the fabulous people working on this area, but let's just take the example of espionage. It's no longer about states trying to break into safes to steal designs for submarines or trying to steal the crown jewels of secrets. It's now about trying to get the health records of individuals through cyber-intrusions in order to use that information to exploit these individuals or to find out information on them where they may be vulnerable.
It's that kind of transition in terms of the scope of activities that we see some of these states doing that I think needs to be raised up. I would like to see this committee talk about the evolution of national security issues that this country faces and then communicate to the country what our services are doing in order to respond.